# AnythingLLM vs LocalGhost

> AnythingLLM has a score of 53.6 (D) against LocalGhost's 45.8 (E). Both do memory search. The largest gap is agent ergonomics, 44 points. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- Updated: 2026-10-04

AnythingLLM has a score of 53.6 (D) against LocalGhost's 45.8 (E). Both do memory search. The largest gap is agent ergonomics, 44 points.

- AnythingLLM: grade D, 53.6/100, rank #330 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/anythingllm.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/anythingllm.json
- LocalGhost: grade E, 45.8/100, rank #396 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localghost.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/localghost.json

## Which one, for what

Pick AnythingLLM for reliability (+8), schema & documentation (+13), agent ergonomics (+44), maintenance & community (+7).

Pick LocalGhost for security & auth (+14), transparency & trust (+14).

## Score by category

| Category | Weight | AnythingLLM | LocalGhost | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 67 | 59 | AnythingLLM +8 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 57 | 44 | AnythingLLM +13 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 46 | 2 | AnythingLLM +44 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 38 | 52 | LocalGhost +14 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 71 | AnythingLLM +7 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 63 | 77 | LocalGhost +14 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | -3 | |
| **Total** | | **53.6 · D** | **45.8 · E** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | AnythingLLM | LocalGhost |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | Model platform |
| Vendor | Mintplex Labs | LocalGhost |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | Token |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT (server, document collector, frontend and Docker image). The desktop app ships under Mintplex Labs' own terms of use, which call its source code a trade secret and forbid reverse engineering | MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | none |
| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |
| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |
| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | none |
| Popularity | 67k stars | 16 stars |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | none |

## Verdicts

**AnythingLLM.** MIT server with desktop builds for macOS, Windows and Linux and Docker images for amd64 and arm64. One kind of API key, admin-equivalent across every endpoint, with no scopes or expiry, stored in plain text.

**LocalGhost.** The server and Android app are MIT-licensed, with no telemetry libraries found. There is no agent API, MCP server or SDK; unpaired callers receive HTTP 503.

## Before you call either

### AnythingLLM

1. Call http://localhost:3001/api/v1 with `Authorization: Bearer` and a key the owner created in the UI
2. Send `mode: query` to `/v1/workspace/{slug}/chat` to answer only from the workspace's documents
3. Treat the key as admin. It can delete workspaces, users and documents
4. Read /api/docs on the instance for the endpoint list. Request bodies there are examples, not schemas
5. Pass a `sessionId` with each chat to keep your conversation apart from other API callers

### LocalGhost

1. Don't call a LocalGhost box. Every request without the paired phone's certificate gets a 503 that looks like an outage
2. Reach a person's LocalGhost archive through the person and their phone. Nothing in wisp 0.0.3 opens it to an agent
3. Read a 503 from a box as no certificate, a retired phone, a locked box or a down daemon. The response never says which
4. Don't treat the README's list of what leaves the phone as complete. The app also calls Frankfurter, Wikipedia's summary API and Android's geocoder
5. Run `ghost-cli ghost.<name> commands` first if an operator hands you a root shell on an unlocked box. It lists command names only, takes key=value arguments and prints JSON

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## Disclosure

- LocalGhost is built by Anchor Terminal's founder. Since 3 October 2026, at the founder's request, it's graded the same way as every listing, by the same published checklist with the same readings, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed. The review panel doesn't review it, and letme never picks it.